Holding Bibles while advocating ‘homosexual marriage’ is sacrilegious

Fri, Feb 8, 2013

Editor: “God bless America,” concluded Barack Obama in a recent address on immigration policy. The man has to be joking. You cannot come out in full support of something which is called an abomination by God and for which two cities were destroyed and then ask God to bless the country you lead. For those of you who do not own a Bible, here is what it says{{more}}: “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination…” Leviticus 20:13. And Romans 1:27: “Likewise also men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.”

Reading Genesis 19 — the destruction of Sodom — it is clear that the economy was booming, people were jolly [gay] anything was acceptable — even the unnatural use of men. Lot’s virgin daughters offered no excitement. Verse 5: Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally. Verse 8: See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do them as you wish….

Recently I wrote thus: It borders on sacrilege that Obama would, on a day celebrated for a man who asked not to be discriminated against “because of his skin colour”, have that equated to moral turpitude, the endorsement of a revolting, repugnant, homosexual so-called choice. I now say that Obama could hold two Bibles in his hands just prior to vehemently advocating for “homosexual marriage” is outright sacrilegious. But it gets worse — here is one Vincentian apologist for Mr Obama on the perversion: “I know that his reference to rights of Gays [The writer’s capitalization] will not go down well with a number of people in our community who often cling to the Bible to show being Gay is against God. Let them remember that white people had used the same Bible to show that blacks could not enjoy the same freedoms that they do…You do not have to like Gay people to recognize that it is their civil right. If we do not, then we give the lie to our own struggles as women and as blacks.”

That writer cannot be for real. Here is an individual equating what some idiots use the Bible to do and what the Bible actually says. Those kinds of people are present in SVG, the politicians—on both sides — who use the Bible to absurdly justify their actions. Does he believe the Bible is the inspired word of God? When two persons of the same sex get married, do wife and husband get removed from the lexicon? Mark quotes Jesus, Chapter 10: 7/8: “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, And the two shall become one flesh…” Certainly they become “one flesh” when they produce off-spring, which is the expected natural outcome of sex. Sex is there to ensure the continuation of the specie. Those who engage in sexual activity that cannot under any circumstance reproduce are engaging in “unorthodox sex”. It is not only Bible believers who believe that.

Is marriage a civil right? It is an unambiguous absurdity to equate this un-natural act to someone ordering me to ride at the back of a bus or surrender my seat to another because of my skin-colour. Is denying me a job because of my skin-colour the same as opposing revolting sexual conduct?

June 24, 1940: Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it.

In 1942 at the age of 56, Hugh Mulzac of Union Island, British West Indies, became the first [African-American] negro merchant marine naval officer to skipper an integrated crew. More than two decades earlier, Captain Mulzac had declined command of a ship with an all-black crew, saying “under no circumstances will I command a Jim Crow vessel.” The ship’s name: Liberty Ship SS Booker T. Washington made 22 round-trip voyages in five years, carrying 18,000 troops to Europe and the Pacific. Time magazine wrote, “Slight, grizzled Hugh Mulzac, ex-seaman, ex-mess boy, was catapulted front and center last week to become a Symbol of Negro participation in the war. When the Liberty freighter Booker T. Washington goes into service from California Shipbuilding’s Los Angeles yard in mid-October, the Maritime Commission decided, she will be commanded by a British West Indies-born Brooklyn man, the first Negro to hold a U. S. master’s certificate and the first to command a 10,500-ton ship.”

August 8, 1945: Republicans condemn Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”

September 30, 1953: Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice, wrote the landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education ending school segregation.

April 1955: Claudette Colvin, 15, of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a bus and is arrested.

November 25, 1955: Republican President Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel.

December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks, who was sitting in the black section of the bus, is arrested for refusing to yield her seat to a white man who wanted her seat because the white section was full.

March 12, 1956: – Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation.

June 5, 1956: Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favour of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law.

It is remarkably disingenuous that those who violently opposed such real civil rights are now at the forefront pushing the reprehensible and equating it to civil rights and that fight. It is equally remarkably disingenuous and downright dishonest of those who pretend that there is no distinction between exact Biblical admonitions and men who see things in the Bible that promote their perverse views. The lesson will continue.

Frank E. da Silva